This exhibit will be about the Ahmad Jamal Trio's performance at the Mellon Jazz Festival , as presented in Rika Asai's fall 2024 American Music class.

WARNING: This exhibit contains images and text from blackface minstrelsy, a theatrical genre that involved demeaning caricatures rooted in racism and white supremacy.

Charles H. Pace was a gospel music composer and publisher based in Chicago until 1936 and then in Pittsburgh’s Hill District until his death in 1963. Most of his printed music has not been preserved, but his compositions survive in the materials he used in various stages of his printing process. These items were discarded from his store when new owners acquired it from his widow, Frankie Pace, in the 1980s. The University of Pittsburgh Library System purchased the materials at an auction in 1999.

Charles H. Pace and Frankie Pace were a husband-and-wife team of gospel musicians, publishers, and activists. They began their life together in Chicago in the early 1930s, and in 1936 they moved to Pittsburgh, where they were based in the Hill District.

On March 3, 1979, jazz pianist Dave Burrell gave two solo performances at the Entermedia Theater in New York. The concerts were recorded, and one set was featured on NPR’s show Jazz Alive later that year. The tapes then resided in Burrell’s personal collection until he donated his archive to the University of Pittsburgh Library System in 2020.

This exhibit will be about An Evening of Folk Songs by Pete Seeger's "Favorite Singing" Robert Schmertz and His Friends, as presented in Rika Asai's fall 2024 American Music class.

In 1931, Josiah Kirby Lilly assembled a staff of researchers and librarians to acquire early and first editions of sheet music of all of the music of composer Stephen Collins Foster (1826-64).

Mildred Miller's extensive career included being a principal artist at the Metropolitan Opera from 1951 through 1974. She made her debut at the Met on November 17, 1951, as Cherubino in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Cesare Siepi in the title role. She would go on to play this role a record-breaking 61 times at the Met. During her 23 years at the Met, she sang in 338 performances, including the title role in “Carmen,” Suzuki in “Madama Butterfly” and Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier,” which was said to be her favorite.

This exhibit will be about the Dear Friends's performance of a concert entitled A Pittsburgh Lady's Diary, as presented in Rika Asai's fall 2024 American Music class.